S2C reactor

Naval reactor used by the United States Navy

The S2C reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S2C designation stands for:

  • S = Submarine platform
  • 2 = Second generation core designed by the contractor
  • C = Combustion Engineering was the contracted designer

This nuclear reactor is the shipboard equivalent of the S1C reactor, and was installed on the experimental USS Tullibee (SSN-597) submarine.

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